Fire and Ice - Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I should know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Fire and Ice
Robert Frost

One Art - Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of the lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
Places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

-Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

One Art
Elizabeth Bishop

ALL OF ME

All you took
I gladly gave
There is nothing left for me to save

All of me
Why not take all of me
Can't you see
I'm no good without you
Take my lips
I want to lose them
Take my arms
I'll never use them
Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry
How can I go on dear, without you
You took the part that once was my heart
So why not take all of me


All of Me
Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons

sensible about love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Douglas Yates

The Treachery Of Images

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
                                       i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
 
i carry your heart with me
e.e. cummings

THE LOVING DEXTERITY [First Version] - William Carlos Williams

The flower
                fallen
a pink petal
                intact on the ground

Deftly
                she raised it
and placed it
                on its stem again

THE LOVING DEXTERITY [First Version]
William Carlos Williams

both happy and sad

I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky

La Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri

In that book which is
My Memory...
On the first page
That is when
I first met you
Appear the words...
Here begins a new life

La Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri